Re: Near-Topic: G forces

Thanks.  I might check it out.	My friend purported that it had an 
interesting view of how space combat might work.

2B^2

>From: Richard and Emily Bell <rlbell@sympatico.ca>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: Near-Topic: G forces
>Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:30:03 -0500
>
>
>
>Brian Bilderback wrote:
>
> > Roger Burton West Wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:44:08AM -0800, Kevin Balentine wrote:
> > > >As an aside, I remember a cartoon from my youth,
> > > >"Battle Between the Planets," I think was the name,
> > > >featuring G Force with their ship, the Phoenix. Mark,
> > > >Princess, Jason ... that's all I can remember.
> > >
> > >"Battle of the Planets" AKA "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman".
> > >
> > >See http://www.chronicsite.com/gatchaman/ for more than you ever
wanted
> > >to know about this...
> >
> > Back on the topic of G's and C and space combat, a friend of mine
once
> > recommended a book titled "Forever War."  Has anyone read it, and
can 
>they
> > tell me who the author was?
> >
>
>Joe Haldeman.	It is an allegory about the Viet Nam War, particularily 
>about
>how the GI's seemed to return to a very different America than the one
they
>left behind.  Although the ships ARE faster than light, transit times
are 
>long
>for the people on the ship and even longer for people not on the ships 
>[ship
>time to the Magellanic Clouds was over two years, the round trip seen
from
>Earth took a few thousand].  The hero keeps re-enlisting because the
war is
>the only familiar thing for him in the entire universe (besides his
ever
>dwindling number of squadmates).
>

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